Archive for March 29th, 2008Google made an environmental gesture this day by turning the lights out on the U.S. version of its search page. The black background doesn’t save energy, but it’s Google’s way of observing Earth Hour. The global event, created by the World Wildlife Fund, encourages people around the … source Tech news blog
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Finnish minister the latest politician sunk by textingPosted by: admin in Tech and GadgetsFollowing a recent trend of politicians embroiled in text message-related sex scandals, Finland’s foreign minister is facing calls for his resignation Saturday after a tabloid published a suggestive text message he had sent to an erotic dancer, Reuters is reporting. Ilkka Kanerva … source Tech news blog It turns out malware had somehow found its way onto a Maine-based supermarket chain’s servers, which led to the security breach announced earlier this month compromising up to 4.2 million credit cards.  Citing a letter the Hannaford grocer sent to Massachusetts regulators, The Boston Globe on Friday reported … source Tech news blog
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Jim Griffin says ISP music tax only one possibilityPosted by: admin in Tech and GadgetsThe controversy over whether an internet service provider should charge for music is once again coming to a boil.  Pundits, music-industry insiders and members of the public are bashing Warner Music Group exec Jim Griffin after he acknowledged in a interview that he is working on a plan to collect … source Tech news blog
Skype sent me a nice email this day to tell me that “Skype is now mobile“. Apparently, “More and more people are using Skype on the move – on mobile phones and in WiFi hotspots on the latest portable devices“…. conveniently they listed out a number of ways for me to make use of their mobility options:
Personally I don't use Skype heavily, but I'd be really interested to hear if any of the IntoMobile readership use one of the above “mobile” options from Skype, or if you’ve another solution - answers in the comment box please……! —
Skype sent me a nice email today to tell me that “Skype is now mobile“. Apparently, “More and more people are using Skype on the move – on mobile phones and in WiFi hotspots on the latest portable devices“…. conveniently they listed out a number of ways for me to make use of their mobility options:
Personally I don't use Skype heavily, but I'd be really interested to hear if any of the IntoMobile readership use one of the above “mobile” options from Skype, or if you’ve another solution - answers in the comment box please……! —
BlueAnt have mailshotted me to let me know that they’ll be at CTIA showing their wares - you might remember from previous posts on IntoMobile (here and here) that BlueAnt are specialists in Bluetooth-connected headsets, handsfree units, and speakers. Without recapping in detail, the products on show at CTIA will be:
For more information on what’s available in your country, go here. —
The solution is apparently based on proven roaming principles, preserving the user cellular experience including voice, data, SMS and all supplementary services while using a WiFi hotspot when roaming. This apparently differentiates the Accuris Networks solution from other WiFi Hotspot roaming solutions available this day
According to Aidan Dillon, CEO at Accuris Networks “Roaming revenue contributes significantly to a mobile operators bottom line however with competitive offers from VoIP providers, mobile operators roaming revenue is seriously threatened. At Accuris Networks our aim is to assist mobile operators in maintaining their position in the roaming value chain while at the same time increasing the level of profitability generated from roaming traffic.” Dillon went on to state “What makes AccuROAM different from other mobile VoIP products available on the market today is: It's a mobile phone based solution so subscribers use the same phone number and have the same customer experience while connected to either GSM or WiFi. Subscribers use their mobile phone to make mobile VoIP calls and not their Personal computer. AccuROAM supports both incoming and outgoing calls to WiFi connected phones, unlike some VoIP solutions that require the subscriber to rely on incoming calls to be handled by GSM and only support outgoing VoIP calls.” The benefit to the subscriber is cheaper roaming calls. While the benefit to the home operator is greater profit margin on the roaming call as there’s no revenue being leaked to a foreign GSM network, which normally receives largest proportion of roaming revenue. The end result is that Net Profit on roaming revenue can apparently be increased by 30%. Well, we all like cheaper calls, don't we - and certainly if they’re international ones! Please order me up one portion of seamless roaming WiFi for the next time I’m travelling …. ! —
What’s it with UGC-TV? You mention one company, and suddenly a whole load come along! Ammeon is announcing what is apparently the “birth of a very special new communication medium”, called Social Mobile Broadcasting. Ammeon's Commune platform basically combines interactive mobile Television with communities and social networking, to delivering an e2e solution designed to complement unicast, broadcast and multicast mobile technologies.
Commune delivers Television content organized in themed communities. While subscribers watch scheduled content, they can chat with other community members and interact with competitions and polls. Subscribers can “virally” invite their friends to join the community and can even upload their own video contributions direct from their phone! Ammeon believe that creating digital multimedia content on the handset is now simple, and should be complemented by a system to allow them to both distribute that content via their own “TV stations”, which have a community of users attached to them. Ammeon believes that “… This represents a true convergence of broadcast and mobile, not just at a technology level, but at a social level“ Comment: It's certainly going to be interesting, as more and more of these platforms are deployed, to watch the landgrab that’s occurring. No doubt social networks are going to be one of the next big things in Mobile (maybe on just hype alone), the only question that remains is how big…? —
Eagle-eyed Engadget folks spotted the OZ2 hitting the FCC for the approval process. If you remember, prior to releasing it as the Helio Ocean, the Pantech-made dual-slider was known simply as OZ. Naturally, we think the OZ2 symbolizes Ocean 2 and hopefully, soon enough, we'll see our assumptions confirmed, or not. CTIA is ahead of us and we'll be looking for both Pantech and Helio for some answers. In the meantime, Helio users could keep their fingers crossed, it can't hurt for sure. [Via: Engadget Mobile] —
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